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unwomanly

adjective as in mannish

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"The easiest shortcut in any society of how to bring a woman down is to expose her as being unwomanly," says Claire.

From BBC

A pastoral letter from the General Association of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts denounced the sisters as unwomanly and unchristian, arguing that they would fall in “shame and dishonor in the dust.”

I’d been wondering how I could be a woman and yet be drawn to unwomanly things.

Pioneer female doctors often established private practices from their homes, which helped to distract public attention from their "unwomanly" professional ambition.

From BBC

Surely a desire, even in an oral history, for modest factual scaffolding doesn’t make one unwomanly?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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